Essay

Global Englishes, Rhyme, and Rap: A Meditation Upon Shifts in Rhythm

by Natalie Gerber

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I look to linguistics and cognitive studies to shift conversations about prosody from investigating “what” a poem’s prosodic practice may be described as to “why” prosodic patterns and disruptions engage us at all. My writing has connected expansive blank verse to free verse practice and, especially, tackled intonation as an under-explored component of verse prosody. At the State University of New York at Fredonia, I teach poetry, 20th-century literature, and professional writing and currently serve as an associate editor for The Wallace Stevens Journal and guest editor for The Robert Frost Review.